Jeff Vrabel: Time for a Superpublican

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Jun 20, 2011 at 12:01 AMJun 20, 2011 at 7:14 PM

BARACK OBAMA HAS FAILED, according to basically everyone whose cocktail money depends on squealing like a monkeyperson on television about how everyone currently in office has failed, preferably on a show that's on loud enough to prevent you from having to talk during dinner.

Jeff Vrabel

BARACK OBAMA HAS FAILED, according to basically everyone whose cocktail money depends on squealing like a monkeyperson on television about how everyone currently in office has failed, preferably on a show that's on loud enough to prevent you from having to talk during dinner.

This is to be expected, as it's been like 12 years since Obama murderated Osama bin Laden, and the question America wants answered is WHAT HAVE YOU EXECUTED FOR US LATELY? Oh, I guess we're just all supposed to sit around and WAIT for Decepticon attacks? Why hasn't he taken care of errrmm whatever the villain in the "Green Lantern" movie is supposed to be? Seriously, someone tell me, because that looks like a very silly video game for children.

Anyway, the news is so bad for Obama right now that he's currently losing to a giant gaping yawning abyss of hopelessness. As most Republican voters wouldn't be caught dead stepping one half-inch off the party line lest they be laser-fried alive by Michele Bachmann's avada-kedavra-powered deathray eyebeams, and full well knowing that their field currently resembles the undercard at a regional professional wrestling exhibition held on a Tuesday night at the high school gymnasium, a Gallup poll last week showed the troubled president down by 5 points to the generic opponent "A Republican," which is funny for those of us in the writin' business and officially tragic for those of you who HAVE OFFICIALLY SPENT A FAT CHUNK OF MONEY CAMPAIGNING ALREADY. The poll showed 44 percent of respondents saying they'd vote for a blank space and 39 percent for Obama, with an unconscionable 18 percent saying they had no opinion. Maybe they're waiting for a yearlong miserable economy, some clarification on social issues or the extermination of the world's most hated bearded guy before getting around to brainstorming.

I love this idea, like Obama loses in 2012 and they just randomly draw some white dude in a televised lottery between the monologue and first sketch on "SNL" and introduce him on Inauguration Day: "Ladies and gentlemen, please congratulate President Glen Jenkins, unemployed former used-car-lot assistant manager from Dublin, Ga! Where's Glen? Is he here? Wave, Glen!"

(Incidentally, replace "A Republican" with An Actual Republican, and suddenly, according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, Obama beats Romney 49-43. The state of politics in 2011: EVERYBODY IS LOSING TO NOBODY.)

So instead, I have a much better idea: With the GOP field making up for in volume what it lacks in pleasantness and electability, the way to go is clear: Create one, monstrous, all-powerful, godhead, Devastator-like SUPERPUBLICAN from the few appealing parts of each of the 250 embarrassing candidates, attach them to a faceless simulacrum floating in a tank full of saltwater in a secret evil underwater lab and give birth to a perfect cloneperson, Kid R if you will, who will not wake up sucking a lemon.

Republican Serpentor will be perfect: He will have the fierce tenacity of Newt Gingrich, without the jewelry bill and wife-abandonment but with a campaign staff, which will help. He will have the single-minded focus of Michele Bachmann, without the need to drink cord blood to survive. He will have the smooth, approachable, presidential-looking appeal of Mitt Romney, but without the weird religion that those nice "South Park" boys did the play about or the 800-pound weight of a healthcare plan hanging off his hair. He will have … well pretty much nothing from Tim Pawlenty. He will have the business acumen of Herman Cain, but without having to be identified as a "pizza magnate," and not even one from a company anyone knows. And he will have Sarah Palin's kingmaker powers and ability to make news with his every proclamation, bus tour or tweet, but with the ability to recall American history and go 10 minutes without being on a reality show.

Jeff Vrabel is proud to accept the job of secretary of the treasury under President Glen Jenkins He can be reached at his new office at http://jeffvrabel.com or followed at http://twitter.com/jeffvrabel.

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